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21 Responses to “Taylor (2009) on Brachiosaurus and Giraffatitan”

Hi could you please have a look at the following vertebra http://www.christraxon.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Vertid.htm and tell me what it might be from. I thought it might be Pliosaur but have been informed that id is not so i am now a little confused. It is from the Kimmeridge clay if East Yorkshire, and measures 2.5″ x 2.5″ x 2.5″.

[…] change without warning at any time. [The Brachiosaurus altithorax reconstruction above is from this paper. White bones are ones that we know are definitely from that species; light grey probably are; […]

[…] 1 (the sauropod-history review) was in the Geological Society dinosaur-history volume; chapter 2 (the Brachiosaurus revision) was in JVP; chapter 3 (the Xenoposeidon description) was in Palaeontology; chapter 4 (the […]

[…] brancai is not Brachiosaurus“. (This of course was drawn from the work that became my subsequent paper on that subject, Taylor 2009) And as I was going through my photos to prepare the slides of that talk, I thought to […]

[…] House next autumn. I’ve been writing about [Brachiosaurus and Giraffatitan], and have read your 2009 study vindicating the proposal to separate them into two genera. […] I know you consider Brachiosaurus […]